Our Club Rooms: gentlemen smoking and playing billiards, cigar label – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Our Club Rooms: gentlemen smoking and playing billiards, cigar label, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Our Club Rooms: gentlemen smoking and playing billiards, cigar label
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Few pictures on this board capture a room as plainly masculine as this one, where the men are shown at ease around the billiard table with cigars in hand. The title, "Our Club Rooms," points to a private social space, the sort of members' parlor that late nineteenth-century clubs provided for conversation, card games and billiards away from the home and the office. The piece is best known as a cigar label, a small printed paper panel meant to be pasted on a box, so its scene was designed to sell tobacco as much as to record a gathering. Notice how the image lingers on leisure and camaraderie, a reminder that such labels promoted smoking as a mark of refined, respectable pastime.
| Original scan | 1,011 × 590 px |
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| Reference | MEN54 |
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